Re: iBeacons - enter and exit?

2014-07-15 Thread Joseph Dixon
You could definitely use a geofence. But iBeacons have a big advantage in power consumption. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > So only if you have multiple interior locations covered... assuming when > no beacons are detected that the person has left the area. > kCLLoca

Re: iBeacons - enter and exit?

2014-07-15 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
So only if you have multiple interior locations covered... assuming when no beacons are detected that the person has left the area. kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters seems like it would be good enough of a geofence to use without beacons. I don't want to go all kCLLocationAccuracyBestForNavigatio

Re: iBeacons - enter and exit?

2014-07-15 Thread Joseph Dixon
iBeacons are useful as proximity detectors, but not much else. A few months ago I did some extensive testing with the idea that I would use multiple iBeacons to triangulate a user's position. After digging through the data what I realized was the signals from the beacons were far too unpredictable

iBeacons - enter and exit?

2014-07-15 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
I have an application built and ready for iBeacon support. It's intention is to tell whether someone is in the office or not. I was planning on placing an iBeacon at the entrance to our office - and use that to tell my server who is in or out of the office. For fun. Well, if you walk into the offi